Identification of Tetrahydropyrido[4,3-<i>d</i>]pyrimidine Amides as a New Class of Orally Bioavailable TGR5 Agonists
作者:David W. Piotrowski、Kentaro Futatsugi、Joseph S. Warmus、Suvi T. M. Orr、Kevin D. Freeman-Cook、Allyn T. Londregan、Liuqing Wei、Sandra M. Jennings、Michael Herr、Steven B. Coffey、Wenhua Jiao、Gregory Storer、David Hepworth、Jian Wang、Sophie Y. Lavergne、Janice E. Chin、John R. Hadcock、Martin B. Brenner、Angela C. Wolford、Ann M. Janssen、Nicole S. Roush、Joanne Buxton、Terri Hinchey、Amit S. Kalgutkar、Raman Sharma、Declan A. Flynn
DOI:10.1021/ml300277t
日期:2013.1.10
Takeda G-protein-coupled receptor 5 (TGR5) represents an exciting biological target for the potential treatment of diabetes and metabolic syndrome. A new class of high-throughput screening (HTS)-derived tetrahydropyrido[4,3-d]pyrimidine amide TGR5 agonists is disclosed. We describe our effort to identify an orally available agonist suitable for assessment of systemic TGR5 agonism. This effort resulted in identification of 16, which had acceptable potency and pharmacokinetic properties to allow for in vivo assessment in dog. A key aspect of this work was the calibration of human and dog in vitro assay systems that could be linked with data from a human ex vivo peripheral blood monocyte assay that expresses receptor at endogenous levels. Potency from the human in vitro assay was also found to correlate with data from an ex vivo human whole blood assay. This calibration exercise provided confidence that 16 could be used to drive plasma exposures sufficient to test the effects of systemic activation of TGR5.